Thornton Wilder’s rarely seen ‘The Matchmaker’—which was turned into the musical ‘Hello, Dolly!’—gets a fun and serious staging in Florida

The best American play, Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town,” is also the most popular American play. While this is a nice coincidence—if you want to call it that—Wilder’s other full-length plays don’t get done much nowadays, in part because everybody does “Our Town” instead of “The Skin of Our Teeth” or “The Matchmaker,” which ran on Broadway for 486 performances but hasn’t returned there since it closed in 1957.